Brit Cocaine Plot Suspect Arrested In Ghana

A British man wanted over a plot to import £70m of cocaine into the UK has been arrested in Ghana. David McDermott is suspected of being a member of a Liverpool-based gang involved in a conspiracy to import 16 holdalls full of high-quality cocaine, weighing 400kg. The 42-year-old, from Ormskirk, West Lancashire, was arrested at a house in the Burma Hills area of Accra, during a joint operation by National Crime Agency (NCA) officers and the Ghanaian Bureau of National Investigation.